This paper investigates syntactic variations in English such as Dative Alternation, Particle Inversion, and Object Postposition (Heavy NP Shift) within the framework of Optimality Theory, and shows that the same set of morphological, informational, and processing constraints affect all these variations In particular, it shows that the variants that used to be regarde..
This paper investigates the nature of the discourse domain involved with focus sentences The major theories of focus including Roothian Alternative Semantics are critically reviewed Alternative Semantics takes a contradictory attitude toward the truth conditional aspect of free focus The truth conditional differences are treated as a pragmatic inference, while they are..
This paper attempts to define various notions involving focus and topic found in Korean and also employs phonetic measures to verify the plausibility of those notions that are theoretically argued for This paper crucially relies on Prince (1981) for the notion of familiarity and its pragmatic significance, and adopts Rooth`s (1985) notion of alternative set and utilizes i..
Negative polarity items (NPIs), which function as quantifiers, are licensed in a syntactically strict way by negatives, which function as qualifiers, resulting in universal negating interpretations as pairs We present a proposal to explain the related phenomena, in which the syntax and the semantics are closely related to each other, with Combinatory Categorial Grammar F..
This paper aims to account for direct combination of an entity type noun with the verb HA- ``do`` (ex piano-rul ha- ``piano-ACC do``) in Korean, based on Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovsky, 1995) The verb HA-``do`` coerces some entity type nouns (eg, pap ``boiled rice``) into event type ones, by virtue of the qualia of the nouns Typically, a telic-based type coercion ..
This paper proposes a statistical model for the translation of prepositions in English-Korean machine translation In the proposed model, statistical information acquired from unlabeled Korean corpora is used to choose the best translation from several possible translations Such information includes functional word-verb co-occurrence information, functional word-verb d..
In this paper, we have proposed Auto-TSS, an automatic transcription module of three ambiguous symbols-period (), colon () and slash ()-using their linguistic contexts Few previous studies have discussed the problems of ambiguities in reading those symbols into Korean alphabetic letters in order to improve the current Korean TTS (Text-To-Speech) systems We have classi..
In this paper, I will look at two conditional connectives in Korean and point out differences between -(u)myen and -tala-myen in their distributions and semantics One of the differences is that -tala-myen always allows epistemic interpretation, whereas -(u)myen allows epistemic interpretation only when the event time of the antecedent clause is in the past or present A se..
Since metaphor was proposed to be a matter of thought instead of language over two decades ago, the research in this area has made most of its progress by the cognitivists For the cognitivists represented by Lakoff, metaphor is not a mere poetic or rhetoric device, but is central to our everyday language Furthermore, according to them, we categorize the world and break it in..
This paper examines two different approaches to resolving a theoretical problem which the bottom-up approach version of Discourse Representation Theory of Kamp et al(2003) faces in dealing with anaphoric relations between pronouns and their potential antecedents in conditional sentences where consequent clauses precede their corresponding conditional clauses In one of..
In general, it is assumed that a pronoun refers to the same individual as the referent of its antecedent However, when a pronoun and its antecedent are in different information or belief states, the two may not refer to the same individual Then a question arises what a pronoun refers to In this paper, two cases are considered When a pronoun occurs in an attitude context, one c..
The nominative and accusative postpositions in Korean may intervene between the negative auxiliary verb ANH and its complement verb phrase As Korean is an OV language, this means that verb {nom, acc} ANH as well as the simpler concatenation verb ANH is possible This fact, together with an overwhelming regularity of these postpositions` optionality in virtually all con..
This paper discloses a striking similarity between KoreanJapanese wh-NPs and Italian QPs both categories are disallowed from LD-movement out of weak islands This leads us to a substantial claim that wh-phrases in the former languages possibly belong to a non-D-linked category, parallel to the Italian QPs This claim is also supported by semantic evidence that is, in-sit..
In a prevailing view of meaning and reference (cf Frege 1892), words pick out entities in the physical world by virtue of meaning Linguists and philosophers have argued whether the meaning of a word is inside or outside language users` mind but, in general, they have taken it for granted that words refer to entities in the physical world Hilary Putnam (1975), based on his fam..
The purpose of this paper is to propose a unified syntactic and semantic account of the two Korean causal conjunctive suffixes, -nula(ko) and -nun palamey, based on corpus linguistic analysis Many of the linguistic accounts available, both in pedagogical references and in the literature on linguistics, provide incomplete analyses of these suffixes, based on fabricated lin..